WILLIAM A. CROTEAU, JR., PHR & PMP **** Riverside Walk Drive
Sugar Hill, GA 30518
770-***-**** Cell 404-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***
HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONAL
IN
A GROWTH INDUSTRY
MANUFACTURING CONSTRUCTION HEALTH CARE
OPERATIONS SERVICE INDUSTRY
A highly successful Human Resource Professional with broad operational responsibilities. A results
oriented HR Professional skilled in turning around under performing departments. Providing
leadership in employee development, compensation, federal and state regulations, benefits,
personnel cost control, retention, counseling, budget development and implementation and policy
refinement.
Special strengths include:
Organizational Development Personnel Evaluation Staffing Functions
Forecasting Strategic Planning Policy Formation
Problem Resolution Payroll and Benefits Admin Team Leadership
Employee Relations Staff Training Planning
HRIS SAP Job Costing
Versatility, flexibility, and troubleshooting are key components of managerial competencies. A
dedicated facilitator who is willing to devote the effort necessary to make the operation a success.
DEPARTMENT HEAD of HUMAN RESOURCES 1998-2009
WLG International – Duluth, GA
Responsible for all Human Resource functions, for a Corporate Headquarters of 600 employees and
field force of 22,000 employees in all 50 states. This includes recruiting, payroll and benefits, training,
counseling, vendor negotiations, policy and procedure adherence and terminations.
• Reduced turnover from 80% to 18% in first year.
• Reduced use of temporaries from $110,000/month to under $20,000/month.
• Developed all salary budgets and forecasts used in all divisional budgets.
• Extensive senior management interaction and updates.
• Developed corporate succession, replacement and skills inventory.
• Extensive knowledge of ADP payroll systems to improve efficiency and employee retention.
• Experienced in all legal aspects of HR functions including EEOC, discrimination and labor cases.
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CONTROLLER/HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER
Osborn Sound/Muzak, Atlanta, Georgia 1987-1998
Responsible for the total financial operations of five retail centers in two states. Supervised all
functions including Human Resources, payroll, collective bargaining agreement, inventory, billing,
budgets, job cost analysis, and forecasting.
Instituted accounts receivable controls which uncovered many past due accounts, resulting in a 40%
increase in collections and reducing bad debt expense from $160 thousand to $55 thousand within
one year.
• Instituted new personnel policies that reduced turnover by 85%.
• Initiated technical upgrades to operational systems resulting in quick resolution of problems.
• Reorganized billing procedures, reducing receivables from 89 days to 58 days.
• Developed forecasting budget that came within 7% of actual expenditures compared with previous
40% of actual expenditures.
• Turned under producing operation into an expanding profitable business that was sold for a $7
million profit within 18 months.
BSBA in Marketing/Accounting from Ohio State University
SHRM certification-PHR
Project Management certification-PMP